There has been a plain white Plaxton bodied B10M seen on rail replacement work in Peterborough Has anyone got the details of it please? Registration number is S756 CKO. I have seen it twice as it has gone past me today in St Neots. There is an A4 size of paper in the lower window on the door. Which I think showing Candy Coaches.

I'm posting this in the Ensign section as all three buses shown here at Peterborough station this afternoon are sub-contracted to Ensign for Rail Replacement.

The Travelmasters coaches have traveled all the way from the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. The blue Decker is from International Coachlines, Thornton Heath.

I bought my first RM from International Coachlines in 2002, It was being used as party bus!

When I was down there earlier, there was also a coach from Intenational Coachlines (AO02RBZ), which used to run on the Eastern Counties X1 service and a short TEMSA (YJ67CXC) belonging to Luxury Transport of Hayes.

One of the Travelmasters in the picture pulled into the hotel at Peterborough services at around 1930 hours this evening so I assume he willbe on standby again tomorrow.

Managed to get a photo of S756CKO the other day. It was new to London Coaches in December 1998, later operated for DeCoursey, Coventry re-registered MJI2370, now owned by Candy Executive Travel, Morden.

Spoke to one of the drivers involved with the bus replacement service, seemingly Thames link only have two local bus companies on there books for Rail Replacement in this area, one being Young's. I can't remember the other. Explains all the buses from down south.

Seemingly some of the replacement services don't make Hitchin before the next southbound from Peterborough departs. Makes one wonder if they are required!!

Spoke to one of the drivers involved with the bus replacement service, seemingly Thames link only have two local bus companies on there books for Rail Replacement in this area, one being Young's. I can't remember the other. Explains all the buses from down south.

Seemingly some of the replacement services don't make Hitchin before the next southbound from Peterborough departs. Makes one wonder if they are required!!

I understood that the actual contract is with Ensign. Coach of Langtoft have been one of the local companies on standby, and Fowlers actually did a runto Hitchin last week between contracts.

Most of the local operators are heavily involved in school and college contracts during the week and do not have the capacity to operate rail replacements as well, also some local operators elect not to do rail replacement for various reasons.

A couple of other operators have turned up this week, and today we had a contrast with a very scruffydouble decker - LK04CTU still in Metroline red and the only clue to identify it was the disc which said 'Club Class Bus Ltd.,and loading up when this arrived was YR17RHJ a 2017 Scania/Higer belonging to Hallmark, although the legals sayWessex, and it also carries Rotala branding!

Also present was A8FTG (FB07AAF) of Hallmark, the driver of which apparently had never seen anyone photographa bus or coach before and wanted to know what I was doing.

However, popped into Huntingdon to see what was loitering as standby there andall that produced was another very scruffy vehicle in the form of a white 1997 B10M/Van Hoolbelonging to Coach Hire, Surrey (XAZ807 prev P845WUG). This left empty at 15.00 hours.

So a bit of a wasted journey really, as Huntingdon bus station is practically deserted these days, althoughdid manage a picture of a Whippet single decker and Dews double decker that had previously eluded me.

As if rail passengers hadn't suffered enough, some of the stuff that is appearingmust be even more discouraging for rail travellers. Some operators make theirolder vehicles look respectable, but some just don't seem to care.

As if rail passengers hadn't suffered enough, some of the stuff that is appearingmust be even more discouraging for rail travellers. Some operators make theirolder vehicles look respectable, but some just don't seem to care.